Fyodor Dostoevsky Sayings and Quotes

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

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The soul is healed by being with children.

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Who doesn't desire his father's death?

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month

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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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To love someone means to see him as God intended him

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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

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The cleverest of all, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

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The best way to keep a prisoner fromÂ escapingÂ is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

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Let us beÂ servants in order to be leaders.

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.